FY11 DOD PH/TBI Program Announcement Released
The Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11) Defense Appropriations Act assigned $100M to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) to support research via the Department of Defense (DOD) Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program (PH/TBI) for the purpose of complementing ongoing Department of Defense (DOD) efforts towards promoting optimal care for PH (including post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) and TBI in the areas of prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Approximately $16M of this appropriation has been assigned to the USAMRMC, Military Operational Medicine Joint Program Committee 5 to support basic and/or applied research (including early phase clinical trials) focused on the psychological health and well-being of military personnel and their families.
Applications must address one or more of the following task areas:
o Suicide Prevention;
o Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders;
o Diagnosis and Treatment of Deployment-Related Psychological Health Problems and Health Risk Behaviors;
o Warfighter Psychological Resilience; and
o Military Family and Community Health and Resilience.
A detailed description of the funding opportunity, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the FY11 PH/TBI Military Operational Medicine Joint Program Committee 5 Fiscal Year 2011 Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury Basic/Applied PH Award Announcement. The Program Announcement is available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov site (<http://www.grants.gov>), the CDMRP website (<http://cdmrp.army.mil/>) and the CDMRP eReceipt System (https://cdmrp.org).
Submission Deadlines:
Pre-Application: October 12, 2011
Application (Invited Only): December 30, 2011
Brief descriptions of each of this award mechanism is available on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs website at <http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/phtbi.shtml>.
A listing of all USAMRMC funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search using CFDA Number 12.420.
